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Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat

Inside Climate News · By Wyatt Myskow, Lee Hedgepeth · last updated
Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida.

By Wyatt Myskow, Lee Hedgepeth

Months in jail and thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees—those are the consequences Alabamians and Arizonans could soon face for selling cell-cultured meat products that could cut into the profits of ranchers, farmers and meatpackers in each state.